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Subject: Re: 450 Xeon or 300 PII?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 16:32:34 11/22/98

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On November 22, 1998 at 19:03:26, Kevin Mulloy wrote:

>Good evening gentlemen!
>     I have a question:  I currently own a 200 MMX Pentium 80 megs of RAM.  I am
>in the process of upgrading to a new machine before Christmas.  I am looking at
>a 300 PII (66 mhz bus - 128 megs of RAM) and a 450 Xeon (100 mhz bus - 128 megs
>of RAM).  Using a heavy calculating program (MCP7) I see that my current machine
>calculates about 1,250,000 positions per minute.  Could anybody out there tell
>me what kind of performance gains that I might be able to expect using the 2
>machines that I am looking at.  Cost is a factor, but if the Xeon should give a
>dramatic performance gain, I would go with it.  Thanks in advance for your help.
>                                     Trapper


The xeon will be at least 3x faster than your current machine, maybe close to
4X, even...  It will blow away the PII/300...



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